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A new report from Gartner Dataquest shows Sun regaining the leadership in Unix-based servers and gaining revenue and market share in the overall market over the most recent quarter. Sun’s renewed Unix-based leadership, earning the company a 31.4 percent share, comes in a segment that is flat, due to continued weakening at the high end, a trend toward server consolidation, and the continued progress of those pesky lower-end Linux-based systems.

Yet Sun has reported that it had the highest growth among the top five vendors in the Linux-based space in terms of shipments and revenues. And Sun did emerge, according to the report, with an overall sales growth of 7.6 percent over a year ago, and now trails Dell by a scant 0.1 percentage point in the overall market.

Just think what Sun could have done if it had embraced Linux earlier!

Anyways, good news for the Java heads and Java nuts.

Source: Sun Gains Server Market Share; Linux Continues to Grow

Football (soccer) is by far the most-watched sporting event in the world today, and what better way to keep track of all the live events than by using the power of Java?

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, football fans will be able to follow the World Cup on their mobile devices through a rich graphical interface. Using a Java ME app downloaded from the official FIFA World Cup site, users will be able to follow every match with real time play-by-play information, live commentary, up to the second scores, and football news.

The Yahoo Mobile Matchcast was developed by EveryPoint and will be available soon.

In the meantime, you might want to download Mobilo’s World Cup 2006 Mobile scoreboard, another Java ME app.

I have to honestly say I was flabbergasted by this report. Obviously, I have no problems asserting that Java is #1 in the enterprise (JEE) or in the mobile space (JME), and I do know it’s made some very good strides on the desktop, with popular apps like Azureus, Limewire, QNext and others leading the way and garnering accolades from the open source community as well.

But never in a million years did I imagine this. Swing? I thought SWT actually would beat Swing handily!

Evans Data Corporation has reported that Swing is the dominant GUI Toolkit for Northern American developers. “Java Swing with 47% use, has surpassed WinForms as the dominant GUI development toolkit, an increase of 27% since fall 2004….Java GUI development is clearly experiencing substantial growth”

Source: Official: Swing is the Dominant GUI Toolkit

Nevertheless, although it was from late last year, I think this report shows that Java on the desktop has made some incredible strides indeed!

The Groovy RFID project will use Groovy scripting with the Sun Java System RFID middleware to intelligently manage sensors, RFID, strobes, alarms and Java motes. Cool, huh?

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Some tips to the attendees this year from the Hani of two years past. Learn, Enjoy, and make Merry!

My top ten JavaOne 2004 tips

If you’re going to JavaOne, or even if you aren’t, check out the JavaOne 2006 Mobile Conference Companion from Kallisto, a neat little app that features all the schedules for the greatest IT event, including the all-important After Dark timeline. The Nokia 3650 and Razr jars stall on my Nokia 9300 (they had not optimized it for the phone, but I had to try anyways), but worked great for my wife’s Razr v3 and my old Nokia 3650.

Note to Kallisto: Instead of a standalone app, one feature to add in future might be a way for people to upload new, shall we say, “informal” get-togethers into a server, which the Java ME app can query. Anyways, great job guys!

I mean, just LOOK at the REALLY COOL stuff going on just for Java ME!

Java ME Schedule

Wahhhh!!!!!!Wahhhh!!!!!! Is my mouth actually salivating???!!!!!

I had surgery yesterday, and am recuperating today.Interestingly enough, i still managed to do some work. No, i could not bring a laptop with me, but i had my nokia 9300, which i’m slowly coming to realize is wonderful for many situations. Add the opera mini java browser and you can do work and play from anywhere! In fact, I’m currently bed-ridden right now and posting using these!

Honestly, we seem to go through the same cycle every year, and always just before JavaOne.

I used to try to like these geeks…REALLY….but one’s patience with adolescent, unreasonable, and generally insane people who can’t seem to figure out what Java exactly is, is really just a big waste of time.

I almost wish Sun would open source Java just so they would shut up already.

Far be it for me to kick a slowly tiring dog when it is down, but I did it for AOL and I’ll gladly do the same for Microsoft. I think Microsoft’s windows mobile devices are in the same situation as UNIX servers - they’ve got hungry lower-end devices munching on their niche from the bottom going up. But Microsoft brings to the party an additional factor - the patented Windows Bugs ^TM.

Just look at what a Motley Fool reviewer found out when he was foolish enough to go with the new Windows-powered Palm Treo.